Chapter 149 Jiezhi

In the late period of the May 4th Movement, Cai Yuanpei renewed his call for "never forgetting to study to save the country" in view of the bias caused by "reading without forgetting to save the country".After that, there was still a "handout craze" on the campus of Peking University, which was unpleasant.Once, a group of students rushed into the Red Building, demanding that the school waive the lecture fee, and to settle accounts with those who advocated this "hateful" rule.Cai told them that he was solely responsible.After arguing for too long, I became angry. "You cowards!" He raised his fists and shouted angrily: "If you have the courage, please stand up and fight me. If any of you dare to touch the teacher, I will beat him." The students stood in front of him. Make a semicircle.Mr. Cai approached them a few steps, and they took a few steps back, always keeping a considerable distance: "This scholar who is usually as tame as a sheep and as quiet as a virgin suddenly becomes a lion of justice."

When Cai Yuanpei was the president of Academia Sinica, although he resigned from dozens of part-time jobs, there was still an endless stream of people asking him to write inscriptions, write prefaces, write articles, and seek positions. Three no announcements": first, no part-time job, second, no writing, and third, no job introduction. Before Cai Yuanpei became the president of Peking University, most of the school affairs meetings were held in English, especially the school affairs meetings of the preparatory courses, all of which were in English.The professor who doesn't understand English can only sit there like a deaf person, suffering extremely.After Cai took over as the principal, he proposed that all school affairs meetings should be conducted in Mandarin, which aroused objections from foreign professors.They mean "we don't understand Mandarin" in English.Mr. Cai responded tit for tat, and replied: "If I teach in a university in your country, is it because I am Chinese that you speak Chinese in meetings!" Professor Yang was speechless.Since then, all speeches at any meeting will be in Chinese, not English.

Cai Yuanpei insisted on dismissing those who have no real talents, no matter what their backgrounds are. Two British professors still went their own way, leading students to visit Bada Hutong.When the employment contract expires, Cai Yuanpei will not renew his employment.At that time, foreign professors were mostly introduced by embassies.Zhu Erdian, the British minister in Beijing, approached Cai to intercede, but was rejected.The envoy was furious and threatened: "I think you, Cai Heqing, can be the principal for a few more days?!" The foreign professor sued in court, and Cai Yuanpei asked Wang Chonghui to act as his attorney, and the school finally won the case.

Around the May Fourth Movement, the Beiyang warlords and their imperial literati accused the new scholar style as a "scourge".Cai Yuanpei published an article, boldly proclaiming: "Today's scholar style can be regarded as a flood; but today's warlords are just beasts, and they must be flooded with beasts." After more than 20 years, Mr. Fu Sinian looked back on the past, still full of emotion: "How brave and true those words were back then!" After Mr. Cai Yuanpei became the president of the Academia Sinica, he spent a lot of money because of the large amount of entertainment.His subordinates saw that the dean's expenses were almost exceeding the salary, so they added 200 yuan to the original salary.Cai Yuanpei calculated the salary after receiving it, and found that it was 200 yuan more, which was very strange, so he asked the supervisor what happened to the person who paid the salary.After he knew the reason, he returned all the extra money on the spot, and called a deployment meeting to say: "Everything must be handled in accordance with the regulations. It doesn't matter if life is poor, but you must strictly abide by the law."

After Tang Shaoyi resigned, Cai Yuanpei also petitioned for his resignation: "I respectfully beg the President to be the Minister of Education as soon as possible, so that Yuanpei can resign as soon as possible, which means that the blame for the dead body will be relieved as soon as possible." When he went to the presidential palace to resign face to face with Yuan Shikai , Yuan said to him: "I represent 400 million people to stay in the monarch." Cai Yuanpei said: "Yuanpei also resigned on behalf of 400 million people." In the autumn of 1930, a provincial government of the Kuomintang was reorganized. A Peking University student asked Mr. Cai Yuanpei to recommend him to Chiang Kai-shek, and asked his old classmates to call Mr. Cai to make it happen.Zheng Tianting remembered that Mr. Cai quickly called back, and there was only one sentence: "I don't grow the flame of the country."